Mesolithic

Material & Non-material

Cave
Life style
Food
Stone & weapon
Art & painting

-Harita Desai
-Janki Parmar
-Shweta Dobariya
-Harshit Sheta
-Palak Patel
-Chaitali Chauhan

Cave
The Bhimbetka rock shelters,
Madhya pradesh, India.

Rie Tebing,
north Sumatra , Indonesia.

Carden park,
England.

(Bhimbetka cave)

Carden park

Bhimbetka rock shelter

Life style
Mesolithic people were semi nomadic
The moving groups, burned fields to either plant some crops, such as
nuts or herbs
They built their dwellings out of furs in the north, or out of clay and
plaster in Anatolia and the Near East.
Grain seeds of emmer and Kamut wheat and barley were taken from
the wild fields and planted near watered areas as the land became
dryer and less fertile in many areas.
Families are more moral and want to do the best for each other, so
ethics were born as well.

Food
They often lived in fertile areas, or moved between these
areas as nomads, they had access to eggs, amphibians, and
other small game at watering holes.

'Lots of foods that they'd find near the shore, salmon,

duck, which could be stuffed with berries; goose stuffed
with crab apples, and venison soaked in wild thyme honey.'

Stone & weapon

The most important weapon of the
mesolithic was undoubtedly the bow

Small stone blades are commonly

associated with the Mesolithic era

As the Stone Age continued,

people became more skillful in
making tools, giving rise to a
tradition of heavy blade flintmaking. These flints were larger and,
as the name suggests, heavier,
allowing people to create fearsome
arrowheads and tips for spears and
other stabbing weapons.

Art & painting

The cave paintings depict the lives and the time of people.

In Africa, a number of bushman rock paintings were found in the

Waterberg area which date from about 8,000 BCE.

European Mesolithic rock art gives more space to human

figures, and is characterized by keener observation, and

greater narrative in the paintings.

Some art are found in Asia

Kamennaya Mogila

-Ukraine

Gobustan

-Azerbaidzhan

Zaraut-Kamar

-Uzbekistan

Shakhty

-Tadzhikistan

Bhimbetka

-India

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Bhimbetka
In the northern part of Central India
Numerous rock paintings have
been preserved in these natural
shelters. Paintings on the walls of
about 500 caves are considered to be
preserved in the environs of Bhopal,
the capital of Madhya Pradesh state.
Bhimbetka

Gobustan
Situated to the south from
Baku , there is small country,
named Gobustan . There are
most interesting , large
(more than 1 m) depictions of
male and female figures,
made with deep, carved lines.

Gobustan

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Zaraut-Kamar

Shakhty
Kamennaya Mogila

Bhimbetka Rock Art

Religion
Evidence for belief in the afterlife first appears in the mesolithic marked
by
the appearance of burial rituals and ancestor worship. Priests and
sanctuary servants
appear in the prehistory.

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